Date: 4 May 2006 09:36:50 +0200
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 09:36:50 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@arklinux.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.17-rc3-mm1 breaks AGP on amd64 boxes in 32 bit mode
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> x86_64 uses numerous x86 files in this manner, and now we we have x86 using
> a couple of x86_64 files in a siilar manner.  I think this is a bad thing,
> and that we should make all these cross-references operate in the same
> direction rather than in both directions.  x86_64 developers already have
> to deal with this problem, so why make start burdening x86 developers also?

So far the only complaints
I heard was from a few people who deleted everything but arch/i386. 
I wasn't very sympathetic to that particular problem because doing
so means they don't care about other architectures at all.

> 
> 
> Anyway.  Andi, I'll drop x86_64-mm-new-northbridge-fix.patch.  Please add
> these exports to your copy of x86_64-mm-new-northbridge.patch

It's already in the version on firstfloor. Just resync with that.

-Andi

P.S.: Since ff connectivity has been spotty in the past I'm also
working on mirroring the patches directly to ftp.x86-64.org
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